A series of important works to dress up and decorate Hanoi is basically complete with just 30 days left until the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi takes place.

Spanish artists are working on the Hanoi-based Sen Thang Long Hotel to turn it into the first hotel in Southeast Asia furnishing in an European contemporary artistic style.

Hanoi will provide 3.6 trillion VND (189 million USD) to preserve and develop craft villages over 2010-2015 to preserve traditional craft villages, develop tourism and build new ones while ensuring the environment is protected.

Businesses and individuals nationwide continue to present their unique present to the capital city of Hanoi in celebration of the city’s 1,000 th anniversary this October. A ceramic mosaic mural along the Red River dike in Hanoi is scheduled to complete on September 25, on time for the anniversary on October 10.

On the occasion of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, the Jetstar Pacific implements a promotion program to offer 1,000 cheap tickets at price of VND100,000 (US$5) each from September 9 to October 10.

Saigontourist Travel Service Company will on Thursday start the MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibitions) trip in the coastal city of Nha Trang for the first batch of a big group of 1,500 staff of Prudential Vietnam, the tour operator said.

Binh Thuan province has received nearly 1.7 million visitors since the beginning of this year, an increase of 14.9% over the same period in 2009. This brings the provincial tourism sector turnover to VND 1,547 billion (around US$80 million).

The Air Mekong, a private airlines in Viet Nam, plans to launch its first commercial flight on the 1000th birthday of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

One of the many reasons I love Vietnam is the motorbike culture. Give me a motorbike over a car any day. Ask anyone that’s read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and they’ll tell you, it’s the simple joy of traveling without viewing the scenery through a windscreen that makes motorcycling anywhere fantastic. But when the scenery is as good as deep in the Mekong Delta the experience is epic.